NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2505MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
18144 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 6000 Ada
+97813%
91.06 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2022
Release Date
Sep 2007
Quadro Ada
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
915 MHz
Base Clock
-
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
960.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
142
SM Count
4
18176
Shading Units
32
568
TMUs
16
192
ROPs
8
568
Tensor Cores
-
142
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
96 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
481.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
1423 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
91.06 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
91.06 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
1423 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
300W
TDP
75W
700 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
G84
AD102
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
